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Showing below up to 250 results in range #501 to #750.
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- Short Story:The Broomstick on the Porch (Frieda Arkin)
- Short Story:The Buck in Trotevale’s (Thomas Williams)
- Short Story:The Buffalo Wallow (Charles Tenney Jackson)
- Short Story:The Bulgarian Poetess (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Burial (Jack Matthews)
- Short Story:The Burning (Jack Cady)
- Short Story:The Bus (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:The Butcherbirds (Esther Patt)
- Short Story:The Call (Bethel Laurence)
- Short Story:The Chamber Music Evening (Phillip Lopate)
- Short Story:The Chevigny Man (Robie Macauley)
- Short Story:The Chicken Which Became a Rat (Albert Drake)
- Short Story:The Chink and the Clock People (Tom Robbins)
- Short Story:The Cinderella Waltz (Ann Beattie)
- Short Story:The Climate of the Family (Nancy G. Chaikin)
- Short Story:The Colleagues of Mr. Chips (Samuel Sandmel)
- Short Story:The Colony (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:The Conqueror (Simon Wincelberg)
- Short Story:The Contest For Aaron Gold (Philip Roth)
- Short Story:The Conventional Wisdom (Stanley Elkin)
- Short Story:The Conversion of the Jews (Philip Roth)
- Short Story:The Conversion of Willie Heaps (Hugh Garner)
- Short Story:The Country Husband (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Dancing Boy (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:The Dark Roots of the Rose (Walter Clemons)
- Short Story:The Day It Rained Forever (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:The Day of the Bullet (Stanley Ellin)
- Short Story:The Day of the Equinox (Daniel Curley)
- Short Story:The Day the Flowers Came (David Madden)
- Short Story:The Death of Sun (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:The Decline And Fall of Augie Sheean (Joe Coogan)
- Short Story:The Decline and Fall of Officer Fergerson (Marion Montgomery)
- Short Story:The Desert in the Oasis (Niccolo Tucci)
- Short Story:The Deserter (Agnes Boyer)
- Short Story:The Destruction of the Goetheanum (James Salter)
- Short Story:The Devil on a Hot Afternoon (Ward Dorrance)
- Short Story:The Dock-Witch (Cynthia Ozick)
- Short Story:The Doctor's Wife (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Eclipse (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The Education of a Queen (Thalia Selz)
- Short Story:The Eldest Child (Maeve Brennan)
- Short Story:The Embarkment for Cythera (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Emerald (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:The End of the Depression (Mary Bolte)
- Short Story:The Excursionists (Nancy Cardozo)
- Short Story:The Farlow Express (Anthony Robinson)
- Short Story:The Final Fate of the Alligators (Edward Hoagland)
- Short Story:The Fine White Mist of Winter (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:The Firebird (Legarde S. Doughty)
- Short Story:The Fireflies (St. Clair McKelway)
- Short Story:The First Face (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The First Flower (Augusta Wallace Lyons)
- Short Story:The Fish Trap (Peter Leach)
- Short Story:The Fisherman From Chihuahua (Evan S. Connell Jr.)
- Short Story:The Five-Forty-Eight (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Flag Is Down (Paul Olsen)
- Short Story:The Flashlight (Eldridge Cleaver)
- Short Story:The Foreigner in the Blood (Mary Gray Hughes)
- Short Story:The Forest (Ella Leffland)
- Short Story:The Forest of the Night (Christine Weston)
- Short Story:The Frozen Fields (Paul Bowles)
- Short Story:The Fugue Of The Fig Tree (Stanley Sultan)
- Short Story:The Further Adventures of Brunhild (Rebecca Kavaler)
- Short Story:The Future (Joseph McElroy)
- Short Story:The Game (Frances Gray Patton)
- Short Story:The Games That We Played (Winston Weathers)
- Short Story:The Gardens of Mont-Saint-Michel (William Maxwell)
- Short Story:The German Refugee (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Gesture (James W. Groshong)
- Short Story:The Gift Bearer (Philip F. O'Connor)
- Short Story:The Girl Across the Room (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:The Girl Who Sang With The Beatles (Robert Hemenway)
- Short Story:The Glass House (Dorothy Livesay)
- Short Story:The Gray (Phillip H. Schneider)
- Short Story:The Guest (Frederic Morton)
- Short Story:The Guest (L'Hôte) (Albert Camus)
- Short Story:The Guns in the Closet (Jose Yglesias)
- Short Story:The Guy in Ward 4 (Leo Rosten)
- Short Story:The Habits of Animals: The Progress of the Seasons (George V. Higgins)
- Short Story:The Hand of Emmagene (Peter Taylor)
- Short Story:The Healthiest Girl In Town (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Heart of This or That Man (Donald Gropman)
- Short Story:The Heroic Journey (Lawrence Lee)
- Short Story:The Hill People (Elizabeth Marshall)
- Short Story:The Hobo (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:The House On The Esplanade (Anne Herbert)
- Short Story:The Howard Parker Montcrief Hoax (Eugene McNamara)
- Short Story:The Hundredth Centennial (Mac Hyman)
- Short Story:The Hunter (Lachlan MacDonald)
- Short Story:The Hunters (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:The Idea of Switzerland (Walter Abish)
- Short Story:The Idols of Afternoon (Jerry Bumpus)
- Short Story:The Impossible He (Rosanne Smith Robinson)
- Short Story:The Indomitable Blue (Ira Wolfert)
- Short Story:The Inhabitants of Venus (Irwin Shaw)
- Short Story:The Inheritance of Emmy One Horse (John R. Milton)
- Short Story:The Insufficient Rope (Ursule Molinaro)
- Short Story:The Iowan’s Curse (Charles G. Finney)
- Short Story:The Jewels of the Cabots (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Judge (Mary Gray Hughes)
- Short Story:The Key (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:The Keyhole Eye (John Stewart Carter)
- Short Story:The Kid Who Fractioned (Carol Sturm)
- Short Story:The Kingdom of Gordon (J. Carol Goodman)
- Short Story:The Klausners (Leonard Tushnet)
- Short Story:The Kugelmass Episode (Woody Allen)
- Short Story:The Last Day (Henia Karmel-Wolfe)
- Short Story:The Last Mohican (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Last of the Grizzly Bears (Ray B. West, Jr.)
- Short Story:The Last Rite (Lee Yu-Hwa)
- Short Story:The Last Running (John Graves)
- Short Story:The Latter End (George Loveridge)
- Short Story:The Ledge (Lawrence Sargent Hall)
- Short Story:The Letters (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:The Lie (Russell Banks)
- Short Story:The Life of the Sleeping Beauty (R.V. Cassill)
- Short Story:The Life You Save May Be Your Own (Flannery O' Connor)
- Short Story:The Light of the Sea (Frieda Arkin)
- Short Story:The Listener (John Barry)
- Short Story:The Lone Pilgrim (Laurie Colwin)
- Short Story:The Longest Voyage (Poul Anderson)
- Short Story:The Lost (Kay Boyle)
- Short Story:The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (Alistair MacLeod)
- Short Story:The Love and Sorrow of Henry Pimber (W. H. Gass)
- Short Story:The Lover (Eugene K. Garber)
- Short Story:The Machine (John Shepley)
- Short Story:The Magic Apple (Penelope Street)
- Short Story:The Magic Barrel (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Magic Poker (Robert Coover)
- Short Story:The Maid's Shoes (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Man In Gray (Christine Weston)
- Short Story:The Man in the Toolhouse (Harvey Swados)
- Short Story:The Man Who Lived (Barry Targan)
- Short Story:The Man Who Looked Like Jesus (Howard Fast)
- Short Story:The Man Who Lost the Sea (Theodore Sturgeon)
- Short Story:The Man Who Loved Extinct Mammals (John Updike)
- Short Story:The Mango Tree (Rosanne Smith Robinson)
- Short Story:The Mexican Girl (Jack Kerouac)
- Short Story:The Middle Place (Mary Hedin)
- Short Story:The Mighty Distance (Georgia McKinley)
- Short Story:The Minority Report (Philip K. Dick)
- Short Story:The Missing Person (Maxine Kumin (estate))
- Short Story:The Model Chapel (Sister Mary Gilbert)
- Short Story:The Month of His Birthday (Henia Karmel-Wolfe)
- Short Story:The Most Elegant Drawing Room in Europe (Nancy Hale)
- Short Story:The Moth and the Primrose (Vincent G. Dethier)
- Short Story:The Mother's Story (Josephine W. Johnson)
- Short Story:The Motion Of Forgetfulness Is Slow (Charles Edward Eaton)
- Short Story:The Mountains Where Cithaeron Is (Amelia Moseley)
- Short Story:The Names and Faces of Heroes (Reynolds Price)
- Short Story:The Need (Robert M. Coates)
- Short Story:The Nemesis (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The New Music (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:The Nickel Misery of George Washington Carver Brown (Ivan Gold)
- Short Story:The Ninth Cold Day (Rosine Weisbrod)
- Short Story:The Old Army Game (George Garrett)
- Short Story:The Old Folks (William H. Gass)
- Short Story:The Old Wives' Tale (Mary Lee Settle)
- Short Story:The One-Star Jew (David Evanier)
- Short Story:The Only People (Judith Higgins)
- Short Story:The Operator (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The Other Child (Olivia Davis)
- Short Story:The Other Foot (Ray Bradbury)
- Short Story:The Other River (Robert O. Bowen)
- Short Story:The Pale Green Fishes (Kressmann Taylor)
- Short Story:The Party (Pat M. Esslinger-Carr)
- Short Story:The Passion of Marco Z- (Anne Leaton)
- Short Story:The Pedersen Kid (W. H. Gass)
- Short Story:The Perils of Flight (Ellington White)
- Short Story:The Picknickers (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:The Picnic (Constance Pendergast)
- Short Story:The Picnickers (Jessamyn West)
- Short Story:The Picture Wouldn’t Fit In The Stove (George Bradshaw)
- Short Story:The Pot of Gold (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Power (Edith Konecky)
- Short Story:The Practice of about Art (Leonard Wallace Robinson)
- Short Story:The Preacher and Margery Scott (William Moseley)
- Short Story:The Prison (Bernard Malamud)
- Short Story:The Professor and the Poet (Marvin Mudrick)
- Short Story:The Promise of Heat (Ethan Ayer)
- Short Story:The Prophecy (Arthur Miller)
- Short Story:The Proud and Virtuous (Doris Betts)
- Short Story:The Pump (William Humphrey)
- Short Story:The Pures (William J. J. Gordon)
- Short Story:The Quail (Rolf Yngve)
- Short Story:The Quarterback Speaks to His God (Herbert Wilner)
- Short Story:The Quiet Chimneys (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:The Rags of Time (Barry Targan)
- Short Story:The Real Meaning of the Faust Legend (Alvin Greenberg)
- Short Story:The Red Mountain (Robert Payne)
- Short Story:The Rememberer (Thomas Whitbread)
- Short Story:The Remission (Mavis Gallant)
- Short Story:The Resemblence Between A Violin Case and a Coffin (Tennessee Williams)
- Short Story:The Resting Place (Oliver La Farge)
- Short Story:The Return of Service (Jonathan Baumbach)
- Short Story:The Returning (Daniel De Paola)
- Short Story:The Revenge of Hannah Kemhuff (Alice Walker)
- Short Story:The Road Out of Axotle (Terry Southern)
- Short Story:The Rock (Vurrell Yentzen)
- Short Story:The Rotifer (Mary Ladd Gavell)
- Short Story:The Ruin of Soul (Leonard Wallace Robinson)
- Short Story:The Safe Deposit (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
- Short Story:The Santa Ana (Sanora Babb)
- Short Story:The Scale Room (George Vukelich)
- Short Story:The School (Donald Barthelme)
- Short Story:The Schreuderspitze (Mark Helprin)
- Short Story:The Searchers (Susan Kuehn)
- Short Story:The Season of Divorce (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Self-Made Brain Surgeon (Mark Harris)
- Short Story:The Sense That In The Scene Delights (Benjamin Demott)
- Short Story:The Shorn Lamb (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Silver Bullet (James Alan McPherson)
- Short Story:The Slightest Distance (Henry Bromell)
- Short Story:The Snooker Shark (William Harrison)
- Short Story:The Snow Owl (Morris Brown)
- Short Story:The Sojourner (Carson McCullers)
- Short Story:The Somebody (Danny Santiago)
- Short Story:The Song (Harris Downey)
- Short Story:The Sons of Martha (Richard McKenna)
- Short Story:The Sound of Waves (Wayson S. Choy)
- Short Story:The Sound of Young Laughter (May Dikeman)
- Short Story:The Spirit in Me (William Hoffman)
- Short Story:The Steinway Quintet (Leslie Epstein)
- Short Story:The Story of a Scar (James Alan McPherson)
- Short Story:The Suitor (L. Woiwode)
- Short Story:The Summer People (Shirley Jackson)
- Short Story:The Supremacy of the Hunza (Joanne Greenberg)
- Short Story:The Surveyor (Henry Roth)
- Short Story:The Swastika On Our Door (Alice Adams)
- Short Story:The Tabby Cat (Paul Rader)
- Short Story:The Tea Bowl of Ninsei Nomura (Margaret Shipley)
- Short Story:The Tea Time of Stouthearted Ladies (Jean Stafford)
- Short Story:The Temperate Zone (Elizabeth Enright)
- Short Story:The Tenant (Helen Hudson)
- Short Story:The Third Guest (B. Traven)
- Short Story:The Tide and Isaac Bates (Stephen Minot)
- Short Story:The Tiger (Frederick Buechner)
- Short Story:The Town Mouse (Stephen Becker)
- Short Story:The Transient (Stanley Elkin)
- Short Story:The Translation (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Short Story:The Traveler (Wallace Stegner)
- Short Story:The Trouble of Marcie Flint (John Cheever)
- Short Story:The Trouble With Being Food (Frederick Busch)
- Short Story:The Unborn Ghosts (Nancy Cardozo)
- Short Story:The Undertow (Wesley Ford Davis)
- Short Story:The Unhappy Hunting Grounds (William Eastlake)
- Short Story:The Vacation (Joe Ashby Porter)
- Short Story:The Value of the Dollar (Ethel Edison Gordon)
- Short Story:The Vestibule (Kaatje Hurlbut)
- Short Story:The Vicar-General and the Wide Night (Harris Downey)
